The Slow Food Movement

So I’m not known to be a trend follower, but then again, I’m hard pressed to call the Slow Food movement a trend.  Check out the links under organize to see more about this movement.  I didn’t so much as start following this when I found out about it, rather, I started to organize my relationship with food in this manner and found that there was a whole movement that thinks the way I do.   How I fell into this line of thought started with how I like to cook.  I love to make everything from scratch and use the freshest ingredients possible.  I thoughroughly enjoy the process of cooking.  I also like to support small community businesses.  I try to buy all my meat from Lincoln Quality Meat Market.  I try to use product from local green grocers, or if I’m lucky, I get a partial bushel of produce from a CSA a good friend is part off.  Living on the northside of Chicago in an apartment with no car really makes it nearly impossible for me to garden.  I don’t even have enough room to do container gardening at my current place of residence.  I’m moving to Nashville in a few months, and I’m hoping I can find a community garden close by.  I would love to learn how to can safely, that way I can make tomato sauce for all those tomatos that come into season very quickly.  I’m also all about learning how to make cheese.  I would love to perfect a fabulous blue.  Anyways, more about that later.  Talk to y’all soon.